What is your favorite video game from the 90s?

This is almost my exact list. They're all games I will happily replay.

I'm kinda surprised it took this long to see Pokémon mentioned.

Similar to mine, I'd add TIE Fighter and Warcraft II as well.

This is the perfect list for me. Command & conquer was a gem!

This is the perfect list for me. Command & conquer was a gem!

The StarCraft storyline and characters resonated so much with me as a kid.

Legendary ending and silly humor throughout made this my goat game. Super Mario World and Super Metroid tie for second.

Definitely Half-Life.

That game is trippy af. One of the first games I ever played and completed. An absolute classic

I remember beating Final Fantasy VII and just staring at my TV in shock. Like, mouth hanging open, mind blown.

What's crazy is for the life of me, I can't even remember the basic gist of the ending of the game today. I just remember how it made me feel.

Earthbound and Chronotrigger are the two games with the most memories for me.

U. N. Squadron and Super Punch-out! We’re the two I played through the most - just over and over again. So much fun.

@Platform27@lemmy.ml @mayflower@lemmy.ml Those are some excellent choices. I'd pick quake for multiplayer - and SS2 for single. Honorable mention to Dune 2.

Yeah, super nice choices!

With exception of MGS, I still play all of those (Quake and Thief series) every few years.

Pretty sure you can get a modern copy of TA. Either on steam or gog.

And if you like the general style but want to broaden your horizons a bit, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and Planetary Annihilation: Titans are both good options!

Never played that, but how about Supreme Commander? That game still beats out any other RTS imo

If you loved it, you must play 2! It’s so good.

Yes Game Boy was a must in that years, even with just Tetris was great as device and then Pokemon have make the addiction.

Yes, I spent many years with red/blue/yellow, but I have to say, gold/silver were the most bang for the buck. I remember reading so many articles about what the new game would have (day night cycle, radio with daily lottery system, weekly events, new pokeball types, holding/berry systems, etc.) and they delivered on absolutely everything in spades. It was only after I beat the elite four that I realized you could go back to kanto and do 8 more gyms! It was by far the most satisfied I have ever been with a new release to a series. I have since read that the devs were under the impression that it would be the last game in the franchise (lol!) so they poured everything into it. And it shows.

Gonna throw Crash Bandicoot on this one as well

I replayed Spyro recently, and honestly, I felt like it didn't hold up. It felt like the objective was to get all of the gems, but there was no reward for getting gems. And maybe because it was a kids game, I just felt like it was way too easy. You could basically just walk to the end of each level, skip any gems and dragons that weren't in the main path to the exit of the level, and finish the game in a couple of hours. I also felt like the level design was kind of wonky. Like, there were paths where you would follow to a dead end just to get gems, and there was nothing else there. That's fine if that happens a couple of times in the game, but it was like this like 4 or 5 time per level.

Spyro 2 was a huge improvement to this formula, because you use the gems to buy upgrades and unlock new paths, or pay the dude to let you use the elevator and such. It made getting gems - and therefore the rest of the game - feel a lot less pointless.

Doom is the reason why my brothers and I set up a lan at our parents' house. IPX over coax, and NE2000 network adapters.

I still play Doom 2 deathmatch against other Doom enthusiasts using source ports. It's just perfect FPS in my opinion.

Dune 2 ... such a great game! I was just playing a bit of OpenRA last night. Great to see your comments this morning!

Excellent

It's still the first game I run with every PC upgrade.

Seconded. Nothing really compares to MGS imo. That being said, I stopped gaming around 2001.

I was just trying to remember the name of SiN earlier today, thanks.

SIN was so good (patched)! I even somehow remembered the day Sinclair was born when that date came irl.

Later when Episode 1 (of 1) came out I set my ringtone to its theme music.

Wololo

I second streets of rage. It has an amazing soundtrack.

Both 80s aren't they?

LSL was a pioneer in micro-transactions. This was pre Internet, mind you. If you got stuck, you could call a paid 1-900 number for hints or straight walkthroughs, and they charged ~$4 per minute. Don't ask me how I know.

Oh, yeah, this game is cool, I loved playing it when I was a kid, the car combat was really nice, I would love a modern game like this.

Just a great game. Descent 1-3 were loads of fun.

From what I understand, the IP owners basically became scumbag squatters, and no hope for a revival of the IP ever occurred

Hated that game. My friends would always find where the exit was, and let me wait there while they did the job.

Solid choices all!

Goldeneye 64 (I bought a N64 console just for this game)

Also did this! Played it at a friend's, fell in love, so 13 year old me got a job and worked til I could buy it. What a game.

I have fond memories of friends coming over, all huddled together in front of my 15" monitor to figure out our way through Riven. Those eureka moments where we were like "wow! These are symbols for a base 5 number system!"

Super Melee was so much fun! Chenjesu and Khor-Ah were the toughest but the other ships were pretty well balanced. So much fun.

I loved exploring new star systems too. Just an incredible game!

Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid.

SimTown

That one I have not heard in a while. It works great using wine! But the controls are really awful (compared to todays standards) 😵‍💫